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This is going to completely go against most of the other stuff in the thread, but to me the Tau empire just depresses the heck out of me. We have what is pretty much the only bit of optimism and progress ever shown in the universe (and to be fair even they aren't all that great, but at least they are willing to talk to you before they kill you, which is more than most of 40k has going for it), and it's located in such a tiny insignificant part of the galaxy that if any of the major factions stopped killing each other for about a year and actually bothered to try they could completely wipe it out like it never even existed.

Just that we have that little bit of hope and its so incredibly outclassed and irrelevant really messes with my head.

Tourist planets eh, other than Shrine worlds and pilgrims I can't imagine what subset of the population would have enough disposable income to keep an entire planet in business.

lol now I have a picture of an imperial tour guide escorting an inquisitor on his day off floating in my brain. That poor guy would be sweating bullets 24/7.